The most successful collaborations

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, April 27, 2017, 12:26:53 PM

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tisbor

Favorites: Gomikawa Fumio, Human Skin Lanterns, Testicle Hazard, Flying Testicle, Masonna/Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Strict/Pain Jerk, Randy Yau/David Phillips (also Randy Yau + Kazumoto Endo).
Lots of testicles.

FreakAnimalFinland

Maybe time to resurrect this topic!
From the recent things, I think Wiese + Haters might be better than any new'ish Haters I have recently heard? Success in that way.
Skin Graft / Wiese also one of the best harsh noise discs of 2020?!

Quote from: Baglady on April 27, 2017, 02:49:58 PM
I think a good example of a collaboration where 1+1 = something of its own is the MSBR & Speculum Fight collab LP on P-Tapes from 1994. Raw material from Koji Tano treated and processed by Damion Romero, with some bits from Tom Grimley as well. Side A is pretty straight up not-so-harsh harsh noise with a weird air to it, but the winner is the b-side where the guys have really taken use of the stereo mix. With clattering acoustic sounds flying all around and through your head, this deserves speakers and some proper volume, and it doesn't sound typical of either MSBR or Speculum Fight. A truly overlooked gem that I keep coming back to over and over.

Also this I listened this year again, and have to appreciate the comment! Certainly collaboration to remember!
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Balor/SS1535

It does not exclusively involve noise projects, but the Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes (black metal/grindcore) collaboration with Nigamushi (dark ambient) on the B-side of Detritivorous Kamigami demo reissue is amazing.  Dark and atmospheric, and great use of various samples and sound effects (from the sound of a gate closing, to lighting-like whip cracks).  If anyone has any information about Nigamusi, I would love to hear it, as I have not been able to find anything out about them apart from their upcoming appearance on a new split album.

Bruitiste

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on November 11, 2020, 02:05:52 PM
Maybe time to resurrect this topic!
From the recent things, I think Wiese + Haters might be better than any new'ish Haters I have recently heard? Success in that way.
Skin Graft / Wiese also one of the best harsh noise discs of 2020?!
Agreed.  Also Wiese / Dilloway last year was very solid.

holy ghost

Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton live collab is one of my favourite discs out there of any genre. A great match.

Wolf Eyes & Sickness "There is a Part of Me You Will Never Know" LP. Great stuff from both from what I remember, been a billion years since I dug it out.

The Rita / Vomir / Werewolf Jerusalem "Threesome Slitting" one sided LP. I haven't had a chance to hear the new 7" but I have it in my pile.

A whole batch of Wiese ones spring to mind:

Wiese / T. Mikawa CD (2016)
Wiese / Dilloway - Sniper Counter Sniper CD (2019)
Wiese / Skin Graft - Accessible World (2020)
White Gold 1 & 2 (Wiese & Blankenship)

Plus a bunch more of the Sissy Spacek collabs.... K2, Smegma, Haters, Hijokaidan.....

Full of Hell & Merzbow - both discs great. Better than your typical fusion of "grindcore & noise". Listened to both discs recently and they both really hold up!

Merzbow & Gore Beyond Necropsy "Rectal Anarchy" - a stone cold classic! I thought I had the CD, I don't and but I have the LP?

Sedem Minut Strachu & Massola
Sedem Minut Strachu & Supraphon Family "Hluk Off!!" 10" - mixing noisecore with some wild out there woodwinds/free jazz/noise is my idea jam any day of the week. All these records fuckin' SLAP.

Sewer Election & Puce Mary - I have two LPs and a tape? All are pretty great. 

K2 / Constrain / Fenian CD on Oxen. Solo track from each and a 3 way scorcher at the end. Great disc!




Fistfuck Masonanie

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Some of my personal favorites:

Richard Ramirez/MSBR - Sonic Aggression: Absolutely crushing collaboration and should be in everyone's collection, a classic that Richard recently re-issued.
OVMN - Optimum Volume Maximum Noise: The self-titled and maybe best tape by OVMN which was a Macro remixing Thirdorgan material.
MXM ‎- Flesh-Biting Paedophile: Another Macro collab, this time with Monde Bruits material. Macro were so good at shaping collab material.

Hijokaidan Featuring Akira Sakata - I love both the studio and live albums and subsequently became a fan of Akira Sakata's work after these releases.
Ryke - Resuscitation: Endo and Yau were already two of my favorite artists and this project contains exceptional cut-up.
Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips - We Are None Of Us: I've loved Meirino's work since he was going by Phroq. However, this work with Dave is a high point.

Not exactly noise per say, but in a similar enough realm of experimental music:
Howard Stelzer / Brendan Murray ‎– Commuter: Two stand out artists who push each other above and beyond on this one.
Jason Lescalleet / Greg Kelley - Conversations: Lescalleet has MANY successful collaborations but this is one of my favorites. I could have also easily picked Lescalleet's collab with Dilloway, Grapes & Snakes or his work with Lambkin, like The Breadwinner.

Bruitiste

A lot of my favorites have been named already, especially John Wiese who's done great things in many contexts, under his own name or with Sissy Spacek.  I also enjoyed his tenure with Bastard Noise, for example Descent to Mimas on Groundfault still sounds great to me.  It tells a story without being cheesy.

I have to mention Tom Smith of TLASILA, who's had some interesting side projects over the years.  His initial collaboration with Kevin Drumm, Reconquer Sleep or Disappear, is a highlight.  From my understanding, speaking to Drumm, it's principally Tom re-working material the former provided, and adding a lot of his own special sauce.
I'm not sure if you'd call Miss High Heel a collaboration or more some kind of noise rock supergroup (Tom, Weasel Walter, Azita Youseffi, Jim O'Rourke, Marlon Magas, etc.) but The Family's Hot Daughter is one hell of a journey, not quite on the level of the Shave's Wigmaker, but really out there.
Not nearly as noisy, but really good for the Schimpfluch-inclined, is the Ohne record on Mego: another case where it's more a new group than a specific collaboration, but assembling Tom with Dave Phillips, Reto Mader, and Daniel Lowenbruck was pretty genius.  Wish they'd done more.

Back to noise: the Evil Moisture/Macronympha collaboration on RRR, The Tentacles of the Octopus sometimes compete against each other, is some of my favorite ever noise.  From my understanding, according to what Andy said on an episode of Noisextra, it's him re-working source material from Macro's Super Oxide tape.  With all the killer Macro examples in this thread, a rare case of Joe giving up the reins?

Lastly, more on the experimental side, not harsh at all, are the Nurse With Wound collaborations with Graham Bowers.  Probably my preferred later NWW material, because it's really dense and layered, lots of sounds stacked and folded on top of each other.  That's generally how I like my noise also. Parade, Rupture, and Excitotoxicity are real winners.

Balor/SS1535

Another collaboration that I really enjoy is the AMK track "il dome for the birds" on Super Panoramic Stereo Sound 5000.  According to the notes on the back, it contains "live performances played and recorded by AMK, Damion Romero, Geoff Brandin, Erik Hoffman, Jorge Martin, and Bob Bellerue."  It is an astounding sound collage made out of samples of bird recordings and bits of a rock song.

Bruitiste

Forgot to mention another couple of enjoyable Evil Moisture collaborations above:
The infamous Fatanarchy On Airtube with Hanatarash, and the one with Panicsville on Nihilist Records.

FallOfNature

The Rita + Wilt is fantastic.

John Canady and Scott Candey teaming up for Blunt Force Trauma was a favourite when I first started listening to PE/Noise

Entartun is a note worthy recent one.

FallOfNature

Ah fuck, Keith Brewer and Macro on the Human Skin Lanterns release/s too. Can't forget that.

Into_The_Void

Quote from: FallOfNature on November 13, 2020, 07:06:57 AM
The Rita + Wilt is fantastic.

Agree. Devastating noise flows on that album. Mania / Coma Detox is the first collaboration which comes to my mind now, for which I really jumped out the chair recently, together with the one with The Rita on the "Escorting" box . Other very good ones: Grunt / Gelsomina, Genocide Organ / Grey Wolves, Linekraft / Alberich, and plenty of other ones. Regarding most recent outputs, I really enjoyed the God is war / Crawl of time tape as well. Didn´t listen to the Sektor 304 / Täter CD so far, but I liked both the original stand alone releases so I´m pretty sure this "remaking" will be above average as well.
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ddmurph

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Some ones that immediately spring to mind:

Joseph Hammer / Jason Crumer
Rock n Roll Jackie / Pain Jerk
Schimpfluch / Masonna

Pretty much all of Graham Lambkin's collaborations - the recent Bill Nace collab is a definite 2020 highlight here. The Jason Lescalleet collabs are among my favourites from either artist (no mean feat given the strength of both discographies). The Joe McPhee collabs (the Chance Meeting CDr deserves a far wider hearing), Elklink, Tart, etc, etc.

Some favourite Erstwhiles (whose modus operandi is pretty much the topic of this thread):

Ami Yoshida / Toshimaru Nakamura - Soba to Bara
Annette Krebs / Taku Unami - Motubachii
Toshiya Tsunoda / Manfred Werder - Detour
Jeph Jerman / Tim Barnes - Matterings
Lucio Capece / Marc Baron - My Trust in You

I don't think it got much circulation outside of Japan but Tori Kudo and Rick Potts - Ka-Bella-Binsky-Bungo! is a firm favourite round these parts. A high point in two discographies jammed full of gems ... deserves a wider audience.

Fully agreed on everything said about John Wiese. I'd also add the Kevin Drumm collab LP on Nihilist. I wouldn't say it's better than the sum of its parts, or sounds different to what you'd imagine this collab would sound like, but 1 + 1 = 2 is sometimes perfectly satisfying. I'd also put the Borbetomagus / Hijokaidan collaboration in this boat.

Some ones already mentioned:

New Blockaders & Organum
Gomikawa Fumio
Evil Moisture & Hanatarash
Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips
Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton

Honourable mentions:

Mark Durgan / John Wall
Junko & Mattin
P16.D4 & SBOTHI
Richard Ramirez & Skin Crime
Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule (probably my favourite Bill Orcutt release from the last number of years, all of which I loved)

Oh, and I don't know if it counts since it was a regular collaboration but I'd definitely add Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham-Smith. Lake is as close to perfection as I can imagine - gorgeous, baffling, alien, all rolled into one perfect package.


Edit: haven't heard it yet, it's on its way, but I'm almost certain the "new" Duncan Harrison & Ian Murphy LP will be on this list.
Double Edit: I've just realised this might be a split rather than a collab. I'm leaving it here anyway as I'm sure there's more than a pinch of psychic bleed through between the sides.

FreakAnimalFinland

I finally got the COIL book that Timeless put out.
https://www.timeless-shop.com/product/the-universe-is-a-haunted-house-coil-through-their-art-archives/

Was talking with friend, who can't stand the electro/dance things, that very very early days, especially the collaboration works of Coil are good. The most notable being COIL / The New Blockaders / Vortex Campaign.

Then latest episode of Noisextra ( https://www.noisextra.com/2021/03/10/noisextra-discuss-the-new-blockaders/  ) was about TNB and having had discussions of Coil and TNB with friends over the week, just had to put Coil / The New Blockaders / Vortex Campaign – The Melancholy Mad Tenant CD (2005 edition) on player. What a great album it is. More accurately re-issue of 1984 tape, with 3 bonus songs of Vortex Campaign.

Collaboration stands for me as prime example how it can be somehow more than anyone of the acts alone. Not sounding like just throwing all in one mess (what probably pretty much describes what this is!), but as if work that emerges, blends perfectly together the ritualistic percussive elements of Coil, rusty and dusty racket of TNB and loops and oddities of Vortex Campaign, and as result, it may not be as noisy and abstract as TNB, not as musically elegant and technologically advances as you may expect from Coil, etc, but it is like album of its own.
Absolutely brilliant collaboration.

If one wants more rugged, more noisy, then The New Blockaders & Vortex Campaign – The New Vortex Blockaders Campaign was reissued on CD bu Menstrual in 2019. It is fierce as hell. Again, collaboration where both somehow compliment eachother.

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In no order since I can't really rank a lot of it and enjoy much equally just some more then others at different times.

1. Ahlzagailzehguh & Impregnable - Sole Possession - CG035 - 2006; A shorter no BS shorter assault on my senses. Probably a perfect example of what harsh noise should be to me. No goals, no emotions, no ego, and beautifully dissociating.

2. Andy Bolus - Joseph Hammer - John Wiese - Prelude To Hawaiian Radio - HEL 99077 - 2020: This one I can only describe as divine. Not your typical abstract, noisy sound collage work and a 3 way project at  that. There's a lot of headspace in it and it completely takes me somewhere else unfamiliar to me. If I hadto describe it as anything more I would call it a auditory manifestation of a space out of time.

3. Airway - Hijokaidan - The Lowest Form Of Music - HEL 99074 - 2020 (technically 2010 but I have the reissue): This is one feels like I'm actually at a live show and the mastering was amazing on it to give a brutal low end depth to it  that really brings out the feeling of it being massive. If a rock band just decided to do nothing but improvise and follow no formula anymore mid show and make a mess the rest of the time I imagine it would sound like this.

4.  John Wiese - Skin Graft - Accessible World - TRO-302 - 2020: Seen this one here up above but I'll put it down anyways. Really thick and heavy the whole the way though. IT doesn't deviate much from the sound it starts with but there's a lot of nice textures and frequencies to get lost in, in there. John Wiese I always associate with more abstract stuff and Skin Graft is the total opposite, sometimes that sort of union does work.

5.  Lasse Marhaug & Dan Johansson - Distort Orgasm - LBP008 - 2012: One of my favorites that doesn't seem to get much attention. Extremely loud and a blend high and low pitched static noise with a lot of variation in it. Each track is different then the other but each one is consistent with keeping it brutal and overwhelming. The last track on it really is like a finale though with those longer higher pitched followed by a crash into complete chaos that goes on for much longer.

6. Mania & Bizarre Uproar - Charnel Heap - antpk.09 - 2019: This one I just discovered. It's a quieter one mastering wise with a lot of space and industrial chaos and highs that sometimes pierce though the lower sound fields. Has a much darker feel to it that's not anything ambient either.

7. Sewer Election & Altar Of Flies - Split - 2008: One of my all time 2 track favorites. The Altar Of Flies said is very dark and spacey with a lot that pops out at you. The Sewer Election side makes it though. Just a longer high pitched guitar feedback current under a layer of rocky field of static and another long tone layered that sounds almost like a sitting truck but a lot more interesting.

8.  Sewer Election & Treriksröset - Rågsved - THC18 - 2010: Recently got the reissue of this one on CD with Killing For Germany which I'm very VERY happy happened. A typical sewer Election and Treriksröset long 2 pieces of extremely varied but straightforward noise that is another constant assault that doesn't give in. Them together or just Serwer Election when they do things like this are good at above most artists at creating what I imagine a representation of war though it is like.

9. Sickness - Slogun - The Scars Of Happiness - Always Numb - TRO-154 - 2005: Sickness here does a really job as usual making something that is just maximum brutality ending with a single power electronics track from Slogun that the vocals on just make the track relentlessly cutting through everything else going on. A good representation of the power human voice has.

10. Werewolf Jerusalem, Vomir, Dead Body Collection - Slashers Are Lurking From Behind The Corner - UMA 043 - 2012: This is one of my all time favorites because it's both relaxing and extremely chaotic at the same time. There a lot going on and you can hear many screams and monster noises sometimes peaking out of the wall like your in hell but besides the constant noise of it all overwhelming your senses there's a sense of release through it. A constant sense of danger that doesn't seem to amount to anything but could come at any time, they definitely got the correct vibe for the title. You want out and feel something else but you're used to this and it's going to keep going regardless.